Thursday, February 13, 2014

It really is okay.

I have always been someone with too many activities in my life. In high school, I used to go to play practice, then swim practice, then go home and do homework in between a few hours of sleep on the living room couch. I think I am still catching up on sleep from high school and college. But, these were my choices, and I would make them again.

I have trained myself to have a lot of things going on at once, but I have really tried over the last year or two to simplify. I am totally okay with the fact that I went to bed at 9:00 p.m. twice this week. If I start to feel like I need to accomplish more in my life, I can simply sign up for a 10-k or get a hobby.

Sometimes, people might make a comment to me that I am old, boring, or married. And I think in response, I can be happy with a calm life. I can be happy because I have used my time wisely so far in life. I partied at the right time, I competed in sports at the right time, and I had plenty of time to do all sorts of things before getting married a little later. So, while I may be old, boring, and married, I can also be accomplished, complete, and comfortable in my own skin. So I am okay with calm.

The point is, everyone can spend their time as they want. I have some friends who had some tough lessons in their early or mid-twenties, and this made them the best versions of themselves that they are now. I have some friends who played everything right early on, and now they are bored with what they didn't take time to do earlier in life. And I have friends that are still figuring out their potential. It sure is fun to watch the people you appreciate find their awesomeness though. In fact, I am perfectly happy to get great sleep at my ripe old age of 31, and lead a calm life while I support others. And that's not boring at all.